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lat⋅i⋅tude
[lat-i-tood, -tyood]
–noun
| 1. | Geography.
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| 2. | freedom from narrow restrictions; freedom of action, opinion, etc.: He allowed his children a fair amount of latitude. |
| 3. | Astronomy.
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| 4. | Photography. the ability of an emulsion to record the brightness values of a subject in their true proportion to one another, expressed as the ratio of the amount of brightness in the darkest possible value to the amount of brightness in the brightest: a latitude of 1 to 128. |
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lat·i·tude (lāt'ĭ-tōōd', -tyōōd') ![]() (click for larger image in new window) n.
[Middle English, geographical latitude, from Old French, width, from Latin lātitūdō, width, geographical latitude, from lātus, wide.] lat'i·tu'din·al (-tōōd'n-əl, -tyōōd'-) adj., lat'i·tu'di·nal·ly adv. |
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Latitude
Lat"i*tude\, n. [F. latitude, L. latitudo, fr. latus broad, wide, for older stlatus; perh. akin to E. strew.]1. Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width. Provided the length do not exceed the latitude above one third part. --Sir H. Wotton. 2. Room; space; freedom from confinement or restraint; hence, looseness; laxity; independence. In human actions there are no degrees and precise natural limits described, but a latitude is indulged. --Jer. Taylor. 3. Extent or breadth of signification, application, etc.; extent of deviation from a standard, as truth, style, etc. No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations. --Fuller. 4. Extent; size; amplitude; scope. I pretend not to treat of them in their full latitude. --Locke. 5. (Geog.) Distance north or south of the equator, measured on a meridian. 6. (Astron.) The angular distance of a heavenly body from the ecliptic. Ascending latitude, Circle of latitude, Geographical latitude, etc. See under Ascending. Circle, etc. High latitude, that part of the earth's surface near either pole, esp. that part within either the arctic or the antarctic circle. Low latitude, that part of the earth's surface which is near the equator.
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Language Translation for : latitude
Spanish:
latitud,
German:
die geographische Breite,
Japanese:
緯度
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latitude
c.1391, from L. latitudo "breadth, width, extent, size," from latus "wide," from PIE base *stela- "to spread" (cf. O.C.S. steljo "to spread out," Arm. lain "broad"). Geographical sense also is from c.1391, lit. "breadth" of a map of the known world. Meaning "freedom from narrow restrictions" (1605) led to latitudinarian (1662) "characterized by broad-mindedness," esp. in ref. to Episcopal clergymen indifferent to doctrinal details.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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